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Group theory and orbital fluctuations of the hydrogen atom

  • Part IV. Invited Papers Dedicated To Asim Orhan Barut
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We review some of the progress made in the past 27 years in understanding the group theoretic and path integral aspects of the hydrogen atom. The group theoretic development was triggered by A. O. Barut who suggested to me the search for a dynamical group larger than SO(4). In this way he became indirectly responsible also for important recent path integral developments.

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Supported in part by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under Grant K1 256.

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Kleinert, H. Group theory and orbital fluctuations of the hydrogen atom. Found Phys 23, 769–807 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883809

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